Introduction to Ethnic Studies

Iy teaches Whites are oppressorsandBIPOCS are victims.

 

Where's the context? What attitude do you mean, exactly? Please clarify what you think the consequences would be if we teach kids the truth.

And no, I don't see it that way. Knowledge is power, even if it makes some of us a little uncomfortable. Anyone who makes racial strife out of knowledge is weak and cowardly, in my opinion.

White people haven't been subjected to the same fear-based discrimination, and often hatred, as other American ethnicities (except for the Irish, but that's a different lesson). I don't fear the knowledge our children will gain from the topic, and I don't shy away from the knowledge of our nation's true history, which isn't always kind to white people because white people DID own other human beings and white people HAVE long practiced discrimination towards the descendants of those slaves. Even though my own ancestors didn't arrive on these shores until a few decades after the Civil War (yep ... Irish), I am not afraid to see our nation's past with pride, warts and all.

 

Where? Please show me the language that teaches what you claim.

 

They're not teaching "the truth", they're teaching kids to be racists. Schools are literally racist indoctrination centers now.

There's been more discrimination against "white people" than you seem to be aware of. For example, were you aware that Italians, not unlike the Irish, faced significant discrimination in the past?



Italians and Irish weren't the only ones either. Polish immigrants, Jews, Mormons, and plenty of other groups of now-considered-white people have been discriminated against and borne the brunt of various other injustices. Yes, American history is not all rainbows and fluffy clouds, and kids, appropriate to their age, should be taught about history, but that's not what these programs do. They're indoctrinating kids that all white people are priviliged oppressors and everyone else are victims of that oppression. Modern "ethnic studies" curriculum not only ignores the many instances of white people being oppressed / discriminated against / victimized, but more fundamentally, it's plainly racist.

 

Quite a lot of straight TERFs these days. And our work is about the usurping of womanhood. It's about the misogyny - whether it's enabling young women to hate the female in themselves (binding or removing their breasts etc to look more male), or it's men in 'blackface'. All of it is ultimately about MEN. That's the key issue.

 

I'm involved with them, and conventional rape is rarely discussed. We are however, moving towards regarding undisclosed trans status as rape - when any kind of intimacy is involved. Since consent was never given, it was acquired via subterfuge.

 

How is a fluffy sentence bad? When it's used in the hope the proles are too lazy to consider the implications behind it.

You can call colour-coding any fluffy thing you like, but it's still colour-coding. That they call it 'acceptance' for marketing purposes, is merely comedy.

 

Until they do, any claim that this is about 'acceptance' is thorough-going bullshit.

That should be immediately obvious to anyone with half a brain and a genuine interest in equality.

 

Seriously? You actually need this explained?

What do you think all the 'down with racism' stuff in the 1960's was about? The people were tired of segregation, the noting of difference, the focus on accident of birth, the failure to judge a man by his character. Did you think they were wrong? Are you that desperate to take things back to the 1950's?

 

Which tells you exactly what they think of people who aren't white.

 

White people are no worse or better than anyone else. Every group has been shitty as hell in the past, and some (not white) have been far shittier than white folk.

Jesus H Christos Dude, why? Your posts here are horrifying in their oblivion.

 

Perhaps you can explain to me how that's going to be the outcome? Oh because they wrote it down so clearly that's going to be the outcome?

lol

they need to teach a critical thinking course...not critical race theory. As it appears to me that critical thinking is on a down turn.

 

The values rooted in humanization and critical consciousness shape the following guiding principles for Ethnic Studies teaching and learning. These are the guiding values and principles each Ethnic Studies lesson should include. Ethnic Studies courses, teaching, and learning will:

1. Cultivate empathy, community actualization, cultural perpetuity, self-worth, self determination, and the holistic well-being of all participants, especially Native People/s and people of color;

2. Celebrate and honor Native People/s of the land and communities of color by providing a space to share their stories of struggle and resistance, along with their intellectual and cultural wealth;

3. Center and place high value on pre-colonial, ancestral, indigenous, diasporic, familial, and marginalized knowledge;

4. Critique empire, white supremacy, racism, anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society;

5. Challenge imperialist/colonial hegemonic beliefs and practices on ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized levels;

6. Connect ourselves to past and contemporary resistance movements that struggle for social justice on global and local levels to ensure a truer democracy; 7. Conceptualize, imagine, and build new possibilities for post-imperial life that promote collective narratives of transformative resistance, critical hope, and radical healing.

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: In this unit, students are reintroduced to the concepts and complex herstories of the dispossession of land from Indigenous peoples, the enslavement of African and Native peoples, the discriminatory and at times genocidal practices of settler colonialism towards cultural and ethnic groups deemed minorities. Students will unpack the legacy and continual impact of these histories within a local context, engaging in reflective dialogue with the community in which they live. Students will explore both the historical and present day erasure of culture and language as well the continual challenges to Indigenous and minority groups’ cultural, political, and economic sovereignty and self determination.

UNIT FOUR: Decolonizing, Regeneration, and Transformational Resistance: This unit aims to bring together a deepened sense of critical consciousness and agency for students as they move towards a culminating community action research project. Students will explore the concept of transformational resistance to oppression through examination of the myriad of ways humans have expressed self determination and critical hope in the contexts of domination.

Intersectional Rainbows: Students will rank their various identities with corresponding colored strings to create intersectional rainbows. Gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, beliefs, nationality, ability, age, etc. Students will compare and contrast their intersectional rainbows with their peers, while framing their discourse within the intersectionality paradigm as laid out by Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Reclaiming race as a space of people of color empowerment in the 1960’s-today: Black Power, Red Power, Brown Power, Yellow Power, White Allies in Solidarity

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